Aug Nishizaka
Biographic Data
| ID | 641184 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aug Nishizaka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aug |
| FAMILY NAME | Nishizaka |
| SIGNATURE | NISHIZAKA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chiba University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2565-0934 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 187 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Reference Distributed Between Multiple Bodies
Rectifying others’ misunderstandings without doing correcting
The synchronized instantiation of the ordered pair of instructive and instructed actions
Targeting and double accountabilities of action in interaction
This study documents the mechanism by which a speaker accomplishes targeting the current turn at an unselected recipient; it does so by reference to what we will call participants’ differential relationships to a referent . Several video recordings of Japanese ordinary conversations are examined with the methodology of conversation analysis. The findings show that the differential relationships are resources for generating double accountabilities…
Seeing butô Performances
This study empirically addresses some aspects of how seeing Japanese avant-garde dance performances ( butô ) is organized in interaction. Using conversation analysis, it analyzes two episodes in detail. In these episodes, different practices are used to perceptually restructure the appearance of a performance. In the first episode, a person explains the difference between the appearances of two performances by transforming modalities (such as ver…
Experiencing space
Doing inspecting in interaction
This study explores the practice of doing inspecting an object, more specifically, the practice of leaning over an object that has been seen in a certain way. It offers a single-case analysis of two segments in which doing inspecting is done in an enhanced way, accompanied by touching the object. It argues that seeing the details of an object is done not necessarily to collect detailed information about the object but as a constitutive part of th…
The granularity of seeing in interaction
Seeing and knowing in interaction
Using the methodology of conversation analysis to examine interactions in outdoor activities, this study explores how participants specifically see an object or event in the development of an activity. In particular, the distinction between (visual) perception and knowledge is oriented to by the participants as a practical issue that informs their alternative action constructions. This distinction matters as a resource for implementing an action …
Partitioning a population in agreement and disagreement
Appearance and Action
Drawing on an analysis of Japanese calligraphy (shodô) lessons where a master reviews his students’ works, I explore the organization of sequences in which the master proposes the correction or improvement of how they draw Japanese or Chinese characters. In such cases, the master faces two organizational issues: (a) how to organize his seeing of a drawn character in an adequately convincing manner, under the aspect of the drawing action that caus…
A sentence dispersed within a turn-at-talk
The aim of this study is to show that there is orderliness in a piece of talk that is extremely complex and, in so doing, to explore the grammatical construction of naturally occurring, and contingently produced, utterances in Japanese interaction. First, I distinguish between unit-completeness and turn-completeness. Second, I introduce the notion of response-opportunity places to indicate those places in which although the ongoing talk is still …
The Perceived Body and Embodied Vision in Interaction
Naoki Ueno explored the essentially “situated,” or interactional, nature of learning, focusing on various naturally occurring settings outside of classrooms. Through a conversation analytic examination of two examples of interaction in which the body is used for demonstration, I demonstrate that specific instructional actions are also essentially interactional accomplishments. In demonstrating the correct body movement, one participant’s body bec…
The moral construction of worry about radiation exposure
In the analysis of video recordings of the interactions between a doctor and the examinees following internal radiation exposure tests at a hospital in Fukushima Prefecture, I explore how the participants address one of the most serious consequences of the Fukushima disaster, that is, their concerns about radioactive materials. To do so, this study employs conversation analysis. The doctor’s presentation of the test results provides the examinees…
The use of demo -prefaced response displacement for being a listener to distressful experiences in Japanese interaction
This study draws on video recordings of interactions between volunteers and evacuees from the areas affected by the March 2011 nuclear power plant explosions in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture. This article has two purposes. The first is to provide a conversation analytic description of a set of interactional practices: displacing responses from their unmarked status as responses to immediately preceding turn-at-talk. The second is to explicate the …
Syntactical constructions and tactile orientations
Facts and Normative Connections
Stivers (2015/this issue) convincingly documents one systematic way in which Conversation Analysis (CA) can provide CA-grounded categories for formal coding. However, formal coding belongs to the view of the world as an aggregate of facts, while CA is involved in the view of the world as normative connections. These worldviews are entirely different and therefore nonrival, and they may be able to provide each other with well-grounded resources. A…
Conversing While Massaging
This study draws on video recordings of interaction in footbath volunteering, an activity that was performed at many emergency shelters after the Great East Japan Earthquake, which occurred on March 11, 2011. In this activity, volunteers massaged the evacuees’ hands while bathing their feet to provide them with a few moments of relaxation. It was important for the volunteers to engage in conversation with evacuees while performing this service. W…
Instructed perception in prenatal ultrasound examinations
The purpose of this study is to elucidate various practices for the structuring of images on an ultrasound monitor during prenatal ultrasound examinations. This study focuses on the practices that healthcare providers employ to invite pregnant women to differentiate a gray-tone image on the ultrasound monitor from the image’s background. In sequential environments in which pregnant women display difficulty in differentiating an image on the scree…
Distribution of visual orientations in prenatal ultrasound examinations
The embodied organization of a real-time fetus
Through an analysis of videotaped interactions between healthcare professionals and pregnant women during ultrasound prenatal examinations in Japan, I explore some aspects of sequence organization in which an ultrasound real-time fetus is organized. The ultrasound demonstration of the fetal condition is an intrinsically interactional and distributed achievement. The ultrasound fetus is constructed as a real-time object in a particular technologic…
Touch without vision
Self-Initiated Problem Presentation in Prenatal Checkups
Unlike primary care acute visits, which are occasioned by a matter of concern to the patient, regular prenatal checkups provide no structural positions for presenting problems that they wish to discuss. I find that there does nevertheless seem to be a systematic sequential position (namely, where an incipient activity is in progress) at which pregnant women can and do raise their concerns. I examine the defensive and evidence-sensitive nature of …
Hand Touching Hand
What to Learn
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate, through the detailed analysis of videotaped violin lessons, that when one learns something, one learns a restructuring of the world. The issues I address in this article include how the restructuring of the environment is accomplished in the actual course of instruction giving, how this restructuring of the environment is intersected with the organization of participation in interaction, and how perf…
What to Learn
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate, through the detailed analysis of videotaped violin lessons, that when one learns something, one learns a restructuring of the world. The issues I address in this article include how the restructuring of the environment is accomplished in the actual course of instruction giving, how this restructuring of the environment is intersected with the organization of participation in interaction, and how perf…
The embodied organization of a real-time fetus
Through an analysis of videotaped interactions between healthcare professionals and pregnant women during ultrasound prenatal examinations in Japan, I explore some aspects of sequence organization in which an ultrasound real-time fetus is organized. The ultrasound demonstration of the fetal condition is an intrinsically interactional and distributed achievement. The ultrasound fetus is constructed as a real-time object in a particular technologic…
Touch without vision
Hand Touching Hand
Instructed perception in prenatal ultrasound examinations
The purpose of this study is to elucidate various practices for the structuring of images on an ultrasound monitor during prenatal ultrasound examinations. This study focuses on the practices that healthcare providers employ to invite pregnant women to differentiate a gray-tone image on the ultrasound monitor from the image’s background. In sequential environments in which pregnant women display difficulty in differentiating an image on the scree…
Appearance and Action
Drawing on an analysis of Japanese calligraphy (shodô) lessons where a master reviews his students’ works, I explore the organization of sequences in which the master proposes the correction or improvement of how they draw Japanese or Chinese characters. In such cases, the master faces two organizational issues: (a) how to organize his seeing of a drawn character in an adequately convincing manner, under the aspect of the drawing action that caus…
The interactive constitution of interculturality
Distribution of visual orientations in prenatal ultrasound examinations
Conversing While Massaging
This study draws on video recordings of interaction in footbath volunteering, an activity that was performed at many emergency shelters after the Great East Japan Earthquake, which occurred on March 11, 2011. In this activity, volunteers massaged the evacuees’ hands while bathing their feet to provide them with a few moments of relaxation. It was important for the volunteers to engage in conversation with evacuees while performing this service. W…
The granularity of seeing in interaction
Syntactical constructions and tactile orientations
Doing interpreting within interaction
Partitioning a population in agreement and disagreement
Self-Initiated Problem Presentation in Prenatal Checkups
Unlike primary care acute visits, which are occasioned by a matter of concern to the patient, regular prenatal checkups provide no structural positions for presenting problems that they wish to discuss. I find that there does nevertheless seem to be a systematic sequential position (namely, where an incipient activity is in progress) at which pregnant women can and do raise their concerns. I examine the defensive and evidence-sensitive nature of …
Seeing and knowing in interaction
Using the methodology of conversation analysis to examine interactions in outdoor activities, this study explores how participants specifically see an object or event in the development of an activity. In particular, the distinction between (visual) perception and knowledge is oriented to by the participants as a practical issue that informs their alternative action constructions. This distinction matters as a resource for implementing an action …
The moral construction of worry about radiation exposure
In the analysis of video recordings of the interactions between a doctor and the examinees following internal radiation exposure tests at a hospital in Fukushima Prefecture, I explore how the participants address one of the most serious consequences of the Fukushima disaster, that is, their concerns about radioactive materials. To do so, this study employs conversation analysis. The doctor’s presentation of the test results provides the examinees…
Facts and Normative Connections
Stivers (2015/this issue) convincingly documents one systematic way in which Conversation Analysis (CA) can provide CA-grounded categories for formal coding. However, formal coding belongs to the view of the world as an aggregate of facts, while CA is involved in the view of the world as normative connections. These worldviews are entirely different and therefore nonrival, and they may be able to provide each other with well-grounded resources. A…
The use of ?power
Religious Faith as a Communicative Practice
After reconstructing Niklas Luhmann's theory of religion in focusing on the idea that religious faith is communicative and not psychological, I attempt to demonstrate how the indeterminability, or inconceivability, of religious figures (e. g., Cod) is accomplished as a discursive practice. For this purpose, an old Japanese Buddhist text is discussed. Because of its functionalism, Luhmann's argument seems to be inseparable from the religious disco…
The interactive constitution of interculturality
Doing interpreting within interaction
The Neglected Situation of Vision in Experimental Psychology
The orthodox conception of `visual perception' entertained in cognitive psychology is that retinal images inside eyeballs or impressions in the `mind', which are very different from our actual visual experiences, are organized into a perception under an individual's skin. Even though this conception is caught up in profound `grammatical' confusions about the concept of seeing or visual perception, nevertheless, it provides experimental psychologi…
Seeing What One Sees
Seeing What One Sees
In this article, it is demonstrated (a) how seeing is organized in the spatiotemporal arrangement of bodies and conduct within which the participants display and manage their orientations to the ongoing activity, and (b) how seeing and emotion are mutually constituted in the precise coordination of conduct and how they, can constitute resources for organizing the ongoing activity. The view advanced in this article sharply contradicts the traditio…
Imagination in Action
The psychology of mental imagery has been caught up in the misconception that mental images are entities in an individual. First, I address this longstanding misconception by examining the basic conception of Stephen M. Kosslyn and his colleagues, which underlies all their arguments. This misconception is genuinely conceptual in the sense that it stems from grammatical violations of the use of the words `see', `mental image', `imagination', and s…
What to Learn
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate, through the detailed analysis of videotaped violin lessons, that when one learns something, one learns a restructuring of the world. The issues I address in this article include how the restructuring of the environment is accomplished in the actual course of instruction giving, how this restructuring of the environment is intersected with the organization of participation in interaction, and how perf…
Hand Touching Hand
Self-Initiated Problem Presentation in Prenatal Checkups
Unlike primary care acute visits, which are occasioned by a matter of concern to the patient, regular prenatal checkups provide no structural positions for presenting problems that they wish to discuss. I find that there does nevertheless seem to be a systematic sequential position (namely, where an incipient activity is in progress) at which pregnant women can and do raise their concerns. I examine the defensive and evidence-sensitive nature of …
The embodied organization of a real-time fetus
Through an analysis of videotaped interactions between healthcare professionals and pregnant women during ultrasound prenatal examinations in Japan, I explore some aspects of sequence organization in which an ultrasound real-time fetus is organized. The ultrasound demonstration of the fetal condition is an intrinsically interactional and distributed achievement. The ultrasound fetus is constructed as a real-time object in a particular technologic…
Touch without vision
Distribution of visual orientations in prenatal ultrasound examinations
Instructed perception in prenatal ultrasound examinations
The purpose of this study is to elucidate various practices for the structuring of images on an ultrasound monitor during prenatal ultrasound examinations. This study focuses on the practices that healthcare providers employ to invite pregnant women to differentiate a gray-tone image on the ultrasound monitor from the image’s background. In sequential environments in which pregnant women display difficulty in differentiating an image on the scree…
Facts and Normative Connections
Stivers (2015/this issue) convincingly documents one systematic way in which Conversation Analysis (CA) can provide CA-grounded categories for formal coding. However, formal coding belongs to the view of the world as an aggregate of facts, while CA is involved in the view of the world as normative connections. These worldviews are entirely different and therefore nonrival, and they may be able to provide each other with well-grounded resources. A…
Conversing While Massaging
This study draws on video recordings of interaction in footbath volunteering, an activity that was performed at many emergency shelters after the Great East Japan Earthquake, which occurred on March 11, 2011. In this activity, volunteers massaged the evacuees’ hands while bathing their feet to provide them with a few moments of relaxation. It was important for the volunteers to engage in conversation with evacuees while performing this service. W…
The use of demo -prefaced response displacement for being a listener to distressful experiences in Japanese interaction
This study draws on video recordings of interactions between volunteers and evacuees from the areas affected by the March 2011 nuclear power plant explosions in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture. This article has two purposes. The first is to provide a conversation analytic description of a set of interactional practices: displacing responses from their unmarked status as responses to immediately preceding turn-at-talk. The second is to explicate the …
Syntactical constructions and tactile orientations
A sentence dispersed within a turn-at-talk
The aim of this study is to show that there is orderliness in a piece of talk that is extremely complex and, in so doing, to explore the grammatical construction of naturally occurring, and contingently produced, utterances in Japanese interaction. First, I distinguish between unit-completeness and turn-completeness. Second, I introduce the notion of response-opportunity places to indicate those places in which although the ongoing talk is still …
The Perceived Body and Embodied Vision in Interaction
Naoki Ueno explored the essentially “situated,” or interactional, nature of learning, focusing on various naturally occurring settings outside of classrooms. Through a conversation analytic examination of two examples of interaction in which the body is used for demonstration, I demonstrate that specific instructional actions are also essentially interactional accomplishments. In demonstrating the correct body movement, one participant’s body bec…
The moral construction of worry about radiation exposure
In the analysis of video recordings of the interactions between a doctor and the examinees following internal radiation exposure tests at a hospital in Fukushima Prefecture, I explore how the participants address one of the most serious consequences of the Fukushima disaster, that is, their concerns about radioactive materials. To do so, this study employs conversation analysis. The doctor’s presentation of the test results provides the examinees…
Appearance and Action
Drawing on an analysis of Japanese calligraphy (shodô) lessons where a master reviews his students’ works, I explore the organization of sequences in which the master proposes the correction or improvement of how they draw Japanese or Chinese characters. In such cases, the master faces two organizational issues: (a) how to organize his seeing of a drawn character in an adequately convincing manner, under the aspect of the drawing action that caus…
Seeing and knowing in interaction
Using the methodology of conversation analysis to examine interactions in outdoor activities, this study explores how participants specifically see an object or event in the development of an activity. In particular, the distinction between (visual) perception and knowledge is oriented to by the participants as a practical issue that informs their alternative action constructions. This distinction matters as a resource for implementing an action …
Partitioning a population in agreement and disagreement
Psychology (27 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (22 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (19 works) · Linguistics (17 works) · Communication (15 works) · Computer Science (15 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Artificial Intelligence (10 works)